More than 200 community events have been organized by block clubs, churches, businesses and other groups for the 8th annual Arise Detroit! Neighborhoods Day Aug. 2. Thousands of volunteers are […]
Detroit Future City would like to commend Crain’s June 30 article on the work and priorities of new Detroit CIO Beth Niblock (“New CIO Beth Niblock starts from scratch to […]
In downtown Detroit, at the headquarters of the online-mortgage company Quicken Loans, there stands another downtown Detroit in miniature. The diorama, made of laser-cut acrylic and stretching out over 19 […]
At one level, a new report about blight in Detroit can be seen as a cartographic inventory of the abandoned homes, vacant lots and rundown industrial sites that have spread […]
In January, Xconomy reported on the Motor City Mapping project to survey the city’s entire 139 square miles—nearly 400,000 parcels of land—and identify blighted properties in need of demolition. Back […]
On the heels of the release of the most comprehensive data set ever on blight in the city of Detroit, Detroit Future City (DFC) is hosting its first ever “Blight […]